This book looks at dreams from a twenty-first century perspective. It takes its inspiration from Freud's insights, but pursues psychoanalytic interest into both neuroscience and the modern psychoanalytic consulting room. The book looks at laboratory research on dreaming alongside the modern clinical use of dreams and links together clinical and empirical research, integrating classical ideas with the plurality of psychoanalytic theoretical constructs available to modern researchers.
Psychoanalysts writing about dreams have traditionally represented the cutting edge of clinical and theoretical development, and this book is no exception. Many of the contributions, as well as the epistemological position taken by the writers, represent a kind of radical openness to new ways of thinking about the clinical situation and about theory. In line with the ambition of the editors, this volume represents an integration of theories and disciplines, and a scientific context for modern psychoanalysis.
The link between clinical research and extraclinical research via the royal road of dreaming is a theme that runs through all the contributions. These cover dreaming as it sheds light on clinical conditions such as depression and trauma, or dreams as they form a core aspect of clinical work; be that as a co-construction, or as shared play between therapist and patients. The book provides insight through dreams to understanding mental functions in all clinical situations and across all conditions.
Edited by:
Peter Fonagy,
Horst Kachele,
Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber,
David Taylor
Imprint: Karnac Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 230mm,
Width: 147mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 900g
ISBN: 9781780490502
ISBN 10: 178049050X
Series: The Developments in Psychoanalysis Series
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 31 December 2012
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
PART I: CLINICAL RESEARCH ON DREAMS CHAPTER ONE - The re-awakening of psychoanalytic theories of dreams and dreaming; CHAPTER TWO - Dreams and play in child analysis today; CHAPTER THREE - The manifest dream is the real dream: the changing relationship between theory and practice in the interpretation of dreams; CHAPTER FOUR - Changes in dreams - from a psychoanalysis with a traumatised, chronic depressed patient; PART II: EXTRACLINICAL RESEARCH ON DREAMS CHAPTER FIVE - Dreams as subject of psychoanalytical treatment research; CHAPTER SIX - The work at the gate - discussion of the papers of Juan Pablo Jimenez and Horst Kachele; PART III: CONCEPTUAL INTEGRATIONS CHAPTER SEVEN - When theories touch: an attempted integration and reformulation of dream theory; CHAPTER EIGHT - 'It's only a dream': physiological and developmental contributions to the feeling of reality; CHAPTER NINE - Discussion of Steven J. Ellman's and Lissa Weinstein's chapters PART IV: CLINICAL AND EXTRACLINICAL RESEARCH IN ONGOING PROJECTS AND DREAMS IN MODERN LITERATURE CHAPTER TEN - Changes in dreams of chronic depressed patients: the Frankfurt fMRI/EEG study (FRED); CHAPTER ELEVEN - Traumatic dreams: symbolisation gone astray; CHAPTER TWELVE - Communicative functions of dream telling; CHAPTER THIRTEEN - ADHD - illness or symptomatic indicator for trauma? A case study from the therapy comparison study on hyperactive children at the Sigmund Freud Institute, Frankfurt; CHAPTER FOURTEEN - No intermediate space for dreaming? Findings of the EVA study with children at risk; PART V: DREAMS IN MODERN LITERATURE CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Orders of the imaginary - Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams and the literature of classical modernity;
Peter Fonagy is Freud Memorial Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Sub-Department of Clinical Health Psychology at University College London. He is Chief Executive of the Anna Freud Centre, London. He is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervising analyst in the British Psychoanalytical Society in child and adult analysis. He has published over 200 chapters and articles and has authored or edited several books. Horst Kachele is the former director of the University Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at Ulm University, Germany (1990 - 2000), also former director of the Research Centre for Psychotherapy, Stuttgart (1988 - 2004); he teaches now at the International Psychoanalytic University in Berlin. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber is Professor of Psychoanalytical Psychology at the University of Kassel, Germany, and Director of the Sigmund-Freud Institut, Frankfurt am Main. She is a training analyst of the Germany Psychoanalytical Association and a member of the Swiss Psychoanalytical Society. David Taylor is a training and supervising analyst of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Clinical Research Sub-Committee.
